still working for a causis belli from iran?

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Bomb found on Iranian passenger plane

TEHRAN, May 31 (UPI) -- An Iranian Kish Air passenger flight returned safely to Ahvaz airport after a crew member found a bomb in the plane's toilet, authorities said.

The bomb was discovered late Saturday as the plane was en route to Tehran from Khuzestan province with 131 aboard, Iran's Fars news agency reported.

The plane returned to Ahvaz and security officials safely defused the bomb, CNN reported.

Oil-rich Khuzestan has seen increasing civil unrest. Arab residents complain the region produces much oil but that little of the money stays in the province to aid local people, Fars said.

The region's Arab population is seeking greater representation in central government and demanding that more attention be paid to local needs, CNN reported.

The Iranian government has said foreign interference is to blame for the strife in the region.

You might want to step back and think about earlier warnings that Khuzestan would be the starting point of an attack on Iran.

And here's an interesting snippet from 2006 to bear in mind, too:

Annexing Khuzestan; Battle-Plans For Iran, by Mike Whitney

The Bush administration’s attention has shifted to a small province in southwestern Iran that is unknown to most Americans. Never the less, Khuzestan will become the next front in the war on terror and the lynchpin for prevailing in the global resource war. If the Bush administration can sweep into the region (under the pretext disarming Iran’s nuclear weapons programs) and put Iran’s prodigious oil wealth under US control, the dream of monopolizing Middle East oil will have been achieved.

Not surprisingly, this was Saddam Hussein’s strategy in 1980 when he initiated hostilities against Iran in a war that would last for eight years. Saddam was an American client at the time, so it is likely that he got the green-light for the invasion from the Reagan White House. Many of Reagan’s high-ranking officials currently serve in the Bush administration; notably Rumsfeld and Cheney.

Khuzestan represents 90% of Iran’s oil production. The control over these massive fields will force the oil-dependent nations of China, Japan and India to continue to stockpile greenbacks despite the currency’s dubious value. The annexing of Khuzestan will prevent Iran’s bourse from opening, thereby guaranteeing that the dollar will maintain its dominant position as the world’s reserve currency. As long as the dollar reigns supreme and western elites have their hands on the Middle East oil-spigot, the current system of exploitation through debt will continue into perpetuity. The administration can confidently prolong its colossal deficits without fear of a plummeting dollar. (In fact, the American war-machine and all its various appendages, from Guantanamo to Abrams Tanks, are paid for by the myriad nations who willingly hold reserves of American currency)

This extortion-scheme is typically referred to as the global economic system. In reality, it has nothing to do with either free markets or capitalism. That is just philosophical mumbo-jumbo. This is the dollar-system; predicated entirely on the ongoing monopoly of the oil trade in dollars.

Anyway, you can't have forgotten that there have been many attempts to incite Iran to make the mistake of committing what we can call an act of war for many years now, and in light of Obama's little lethal pragmatism of using * and Fudd's playbook on just about everything, I heavily endorse thinking about this angle hard.

Or do you prefer to think they're scaring their own population into sticking with Ahmadinejad?